Music can do incredible things
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Finally we have some new music nearly ready. Life has been busy lately and we haven’t been able to move things as fast as we would have wanted. We assure you though that we are nearly there with our new record which will be titled Munich. Over the next weeks we’ll post up some demos from the forthcoming record. This is the first of those entitled The Hundredth Time.
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From an acoustic show the other day
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This Won’t End Quietly
the best festival i’ve ever been to and this is why I cant wait to go back.
The other night I had the pleasure of going to see The Maccabees at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Firstly, that really is a great venue.
I’ve seen The Maccabees once before for their second album tour, and I loved them. But this time it was on a different level. The production value of the show was a little higher with some impressive lighting rigs. They as a band though have gone from strength to strength. I was a huge fan of their first album and loved its rawness and it was an out and out ‘indie’ album. The album was a huge part of me growing up and when I first heard their second album I instantly loved it. In a strange way what I realise is that I’ve kind of grown up at the same time as them, so even though I look back at that first album and it still blows me away, I think to see their growth and maturation through their music is inspiring. They release records and play music that they want to do. Its obvious that they still love playing the classics and I think they love where they’ve come from, but they are going somewhere new and different.
If you release an album and you get it right, its a risk to release a second one and it be different to the first. It’s always annoyed me when people look on artists and say they cant believe how much they’ve changed in the time they’ve been around. Of course they’ve changed musically, because as people they’ve matured/had different experiences etc. Music that is true and real stems from someone’s honesty, so its only natural that it changes.
I think artists such as Oasis/Dizzee Rascal get the worst of it because their debuts are about working class backgrounds and what it is to grow up in their surroundings. Then it comes to their third albums and their success and fame means obviously they’re not in that same situation. People say “they’ve forgotten where they come from” and I dont agree. Surely it would be worse for artists who make a lot of money to still release tracks about struggling through their everyday working class lives. Thats obviously not where they’re at anymore.
To see a band like The Maccabees grow has been incredible and I genuinely hope they keep going. A true inspiration
A Big Pair Of Tits
Brent’s monologue about life’s ups and downs has never been more relevant to me than this week. I’ve learned a lot.
I’m still amazed how emotions (at least my own) can go from so high to so low in hardly any time. How one minute you can feel untouchable to the next everything being turned on its head and being exactly where you were before. I realised a mistake that I’ve been making for a large part of my life. I try to plan things out and often get so caught up in the long term that I forget about the now. But I realise that without the now, there is no long term. I’m not suggesting not to plan or have goals, I believe that this is incredibly important in life, but also I think you need to let life happen. Because however well I plan something, however much time and effort I put into that, something can happen completely out of my hands which will change everything within a split second. I still worry about the future and I’m still planning, but now I leave a bit more space for chance.
“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don’t know whether you’re in a trough until you’re climbing out, or on a peak until you’re coming down. And that’s it, you know, you never know what’s round the corner. But it’s all good. “If you want the rainbow you’ve got to put up with the rain”. Do you know which “philosopher” said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she’s just a big pair of tits.”
― David Brent
No words can begin to describe how this makes me feel
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FACIAL AWARENESS
As a bit of a beard obsessive, this website is the coolest thing
